File this one under things we aren’t smart enough to understand. Sunday, the photo of first-term Texas Senator Ted Cruz you see in the embedded tweet made the social media rounds. It is an Associated Press photo, taken at a Cruz campaign event at a gun range. Many Cruz supporters…
Darryl Hamilton, the man who played center field for one of the most important teams in Texas Rangers history, was shot to death near Houston sometime Sunday afternoon. According to the Pearland Police Department, Hamilton and Monica Jordan were found dead after officers responded to a 911 call at 4:45 p.m…
Jordan Spieth is halfway to doing something no golfer has ever done before. With a one shot victory at Chambers Bay Golf Course near Tacoma, Washington, the Dallas-bred Jesuit grad won the U.S. Open Sunday, following up his record-setting win at the Masters in April. The 21-year-old became the first…
There was about a half-decade stretch, covering roughly the back half of the ’00s, when Mike Ribeiro was one of the Dallas Stars two best players. He was also, alleges a Collin County woman who babysat for Ribeiro and his wife, a handsy drunk who sexually assaulted her as she…
Sebastian Blain, the French defense contractor who was charged with assaulting two bicyclists on Turtle Creek Boulevard late last year, was found not guilty by a jury this month, court records show. At his trial, Blain testified that he was acting in self-defense, according to his attorney. George Wendt and…
One of the funniest not-at-all-funny things Dallas City Hall has done in recent years is the MLK “façade improvement program,” intended to “spruce up” (in the words of the city’s only daily newspaper) Martin Luther King Boulevard, an arrow through the heart of abject poverty in southern Dallas. We have…
Martin Urbina told police he didn’t remember shooting his friend. The last he could recall, it was not long after midnight on Thursday and he and the friend, Gilberto Perez, were sitting on his West Dallas front porch. Perez walked to the side of the house to take a piss…
The effect of Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling is simple: The state of Texas is not required to issue license plates featuring the Confederate battle flag. The state was sued by the Sons of Confederate Veterans after the organization’s 2009 application for a specialty plate with the group’s logo was…
Surely, Raquel Hultquist knows now who Tennell Atkins is, but that’s not really the point. What was an issue Thursday, at Atkins’ long-awaited trial for his December alleged assault on Hultquist, was whether she knew who he was then. Hultquist, a 911 operator conscripted into temporary security duty at one of…
Five North Texans have been arrested, and two more indicted, for their alleged roles in Medicare fraud schemes that the U.S. Department of Justice says netted more than $700 million. “This action represents the largest criminal health care fraud takedown in the history of the Department of Justice, and it adds to…
On the slick website of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council, a lobbying organization for the local drilling industry, an anonymous man asks a question on behalf of his worried wife. “My wife is concerned about potential contamination of our 800-foot-deep well. Who will oversee the safe drilling of the well which…
The Preston Center skybridge that would connect the shopping center’s aging city-owned garage to a potential Tom Thumb remains but a twinkle in developer Harlan Crow’s eye. The Dallas City Council agreed Wednesday to delay a final vote on the bridge until at least November, heeding the request of council member…
The corruption charges unveiled in New York last month against more than a dozen international soccer bigwigs shook FIFA to its core, but the long arm of American justice somehow missed longtime FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter, the world’s most notorious sportocrat. Those hoping that Blatter will experience a comeuppance…
Remember that time four years ago that AT&T gutted your precious, grandfathered-in unlimited plan and started throttling your “excessive” data use? Turns out, the Federal Communications Commission didn’t like it either. Wednesday, the FCC expressed that displeasure in a big way, announcing plans to hit the Dallas-based communications giant with…
In the wee hours of the morning on June 7, about 3:50 a.m., Carlos Weeks was home at his apartment when he saw it: a tow truck hauling off his 2004 Lincoln Aviator, according to the narrative provided by the Dallas Police Department. “The vehicle was being towed for a…
Tracey Carver, the woman in the middle of the fight that led to McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt and his coworkers being called to bust up a pool party, has fled to California. Carver says she fears for her’s and her family’s safety after receiving threats over her reportedly using…
It began with the smell. Something like cooked meat with kimchi, coating her furniture and clothes. Thinking it was mildew invading her ducts, Casey blasted the AC, and that worked for two days. Then she wondered if her four cats were peeing overtime. The noxious odor of decay continued to…
The heaviest rain from Tropical Storm Bill is now expected to arrive in Dallas on Wednesday, rather than overnight Tuesday, as was originally forecast. The biggest risk for flooding, the most likely severe weather from Bill, will happen days after the rain, Rocky Vaz with the Dallas Office of Emergency…
It was a rough Monday night in Pleasant Grove. And by night we mean the 10-minute period between 11:30 and 11:40 p.m. And by Pleasant Grove we’re referring specifically to a half-mile stretch of Lawnview Avenue. According to police, there were three separate incidents, all involving guns: one attempted car…
In the wake of James Boulware’s attack on Dallas police headquarters, one of the local police unions is sort of blaming the media and a nameless man who once filmed police and is not shooter/would-be bomber Boulware. The Dallas Police Association released a statement shortly after the attack on…
From the Dallas County sheriff comes this awesome video of Deputy Katrina Caldwell stopping James Boulware and his armored van. Dallas cops were chasing Boulware south on Interstate 45 early Saturday, away from police headquarters on Lamar Street, where Boulware had fired at officers and left pipe bombs. From the DSO: “Video…
Philip Kingston is the City Council representative for Dallas’ District 14, the architect of the oh-so-close attempt to elect a progressive (read: anti-Trinity toll road) majority to the council. Gary Fitzsimmons is Dallas County’s outspoken former district clerk. Both men share an obsessive commitment to local politics. Both men sometimes…
